I hurried back into town and went straight from the airport to the Pav, maybe unnecessary. Gophs 25-17, 25-14, 25-16 over the LOng Island University Sharks
- Set 1: We played the starters … no contest.
- Set 2: Acevedo played the entire set replacing Hanson … no drop in performance en route to a 12-2 lead. But
- When, as Shaffmaster rotated to front-row, we went to a 6-2, using McGhie at setter and Crowl at Opposite … we went 3-8 over the next 11 points …
- But were again dominant when Shaffmaster and Grote returned.
- Set 3: Stayed with Wooker & Acevedo at Leftside, but wholesale substitutions eslewhere:
> A 6-2 with McGhie and Ng as the setters.
> Schnickels and Crowl at Opposite
> Gray sharing Libero duties, and even
> Egeman in at Middle (for Owoleye?)
Didn’t seem to matter.
I was going to give cred to LIU’s Libero, who I thought was terrific and deserves a better team – but I can’t tell you her name, because no one who looks like her or wears her number is on the Sharks roster. A “Ringer?”
St. Thomas and LIU much lower-level competition than Stanford, Texas, Baylor and TCU, but tomorrow night at the Pav, we get Auburn, who comes in with a 6-0 record.